Bonus Q&A – Why do politicians use big numbers and why do we vote with pencils?

Why do politicians use big numbers in interviews? How will
political reporting change in the future? And why do we vote
using pencils?


Amol and Nick answer these questions and more in this bonus
episode of The Today Podcast.


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The Today Podcast is hosted by Amol Rajan and Nick Robinson, both
presenters of BBC Radio 4’s Today programme, the UK’s most
influential radio news programme. Amol was the BBC’s media editor
for six years and is the former editor of the Independent, he’s
also the current presenter of University Challenge. Nick has
presented the Today programme since 2015, he was the BBC’s
political editor for ten years before that and also previously
worked as ITV’s political editor.


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The senior producer is Tom Smithard, the producer is Hatty Nash.
The editor is Louisa Lewis. The executive producer is Owenna
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